The economic and social impact of the waterborne sectors in Europe cannot be overstated, employing directly more than 3 million people and generating a turnover of about €250 billion representing more than 1% of the EU’s GDP. In order to maintain its leadership and competitiveness, Europe must take advantage of new market opportunities and address these challenges by means of focused research, ...

Criminal activities at sea have been a reality for past years. In such activities, predominantly small maritime vessels are used, which are difficult to detect. Until now, border agencies observe and protect the critical maritime areas by ships, planes or helicopters. Therefore, surveillance is expensive and full coverage is difficult to obtain. To improve this situation, the European research ...

The purpose of this paper is to point out some of the main characteristics and critical factors for success that can substantiate the proposal of a differentiation framework for maritime clusters. We conduct a benchmarking analysis intended to distinguish the most relevant aspects which can or should be observed in these types of clusters, applied to the following countries: Spain (Basque Count...

The purpose of this paper is to provide a theoretical framework for Maritime Informatics from a serviceoriented ecosystem view. We propose to go beyond the traditional service provider-user dyad view to provide a richer understanding of Maritime Informatics using a case study. Relying upon the ServiceDominant (S-D) logic framework, this paper presents how this service-oriented ecosystem view he...

In Japan, the accident rate for seamen is 5 times higher than that for all other industries. Many maritime work accidents are related to the poor ergonomic conditions of the working environment. It is particularly important to examine seamen safety in terms of vessel type and seamen age, as these factors are related to various sorts of accidents. In this paper, maritime work accidents were anal...

The relevant analysis from BIMCO, IMO and other authorities in recent years have indicated increasing difficulties in recruiting high quality seafarers, especially senior officers. In fact, the number may be less than the statistics already obtained, due to the rapid development of maritime technologies, faster vessels, higher safety standards and pollution prevention requirements, and tighter ...

Maritime Situational Awareness (MSA) is founded on the collection and processing of information from heterogeneous sources, including radars, Navigation Aids (Vessel Traffic Monitoring and Information Systems, Automatic Identification System, Long Range Identification and Tracking System, etc), airbased and space-based monitoring services (Earth Observation), and recentlyconceived passive senso...

Maritime wireless communication is different from terrestrial wireless communication, due to difference of environments. Nevertheless technologies based on WiMAX (IEEE 802.16j) for ship to ship maritime communication promised to deliver high data rates over large distances and deliver multimedia services and are expected to use e-Navigation system. This paper focuses to simulate on IEEE 802.16j...

With the rapid development of maritime digital communication, the demand for spectrum resources is increasing, and building a maritime cognitive radio communication system is an effective solution. In this paper, the problem of how to effectively allocate the spectrum for secondary users (SUs) with different priorities in a maritime cognitive radio communication system is studied. According to ...

The international maritime industry is governed by strict international regulations managed by the International Maritime Organization (IMO). Maritime operations are inherently dangerous, with potentially very damaging consequences in terms of loss of lives, environmental consequences and economic loss. Operating at the highest levels of safety in a very competitive industry requires that ships...